Indian Badminton Thread ...

Kumar · Post by **Kumar** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:16 pm

Thomas cup starting on Feb 16th( India in same group as south korea) . it would be tough for india to make it to finals in may.

Five teams make to finals with top teams from each group (second best team will play each other for the fifth spot)

Interesting observation as to Singapore not fielding naturalised citizens? PKB any feedback on that?

http://in.rediff.com/sports/2004/feb/07bad.htm

david · Post by **david** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:11 am

India blank Iran 5-0 in the opening Group A tie.

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:43 am

Kumar, Singapore has naturalised citizens in virtually all sports -- especially Table Tennis, Badminton and Soccer. Singapore's Badminton star, Susilo, is from Indonesia, and most of the Table Tennis team (which did well in the Commonwealth Games) is from China. In cricket, they've recently recruited a former India Under-19 spinner called P Dharmichand (who is actually very good, but was not able to break into the Karnataka side because of alleged politics that favoured Brijesh Patel's son Udit).

david · Post by **david** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:28 pm

I have seen Dharmichand and he is a very good player.

Recently there was a page 1 story in Deccan Herald and follow up in Express on the alleged favours to Udit who made to the Karnataka Ranji team and they said in disgust Dharmi quit the state scene.

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:13 am

The Indian women fought gallantly against second seeds Japan but went down 2-3 in a Group A league encounter at the Uber Cup Asian Zone (preliminaries) badminton tournament at Kuala Lumpur today.

In the men's Thomas Cup league match India thrashed rank-outsiders Macau 5-0 to secure at least the second spot in Group A

Kathir

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:02 pm

As mentioned by Kathir in the previous post, India narrowly lost to Japan.

Aparna Popat (world #24) def. Miho Tanaka (#14) 11-8, 7-11, 11-2
Kaori Mori (#16)def. B R Meenakshi 11-9, 11-4
Trupti Murgunde beat Yu Hirayama 4-11, 11-4, 13-10

Shizuka Yamamoto and Seiko Yamada (#10) def. Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurien 15-7, 15-3
Keiko Yoshitomi and Kumiko Ogura beat Fatima Nazneen and Manjusha Kanwar 15-4, 15-3

Indian girls had earlier defeated Macau 5-0, and will play Hong Kong and Malaysia. The top two teams from this group will move into the semifinals, and top three teams from this tournament will play in the Uber Cup finals in Indonesia in May.

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:14 am

The indian girls have to beat now both Hong Kong and Malaysia to keep the semifinal hope alive. But, it's going to be a uphill task and Malaysians won against the fancied HK in opening round.

Kathir

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:52 pm

Hey great!!! India upset Hong Kong 4-1

The Indians now have two wins from three encounters and will take on hosts Malaysia in the final league encounter to decide the second team to qualify for the semi finals from Group A. Japan won all three matches so far.

wrote:The Indians were given a flying start by Popat, who has not lost a single match so far, thrashing Wan Ting Ling 11-3, 11-6.

The experienced B R Meenakshi then crushed Ng Ka-Shuu 11-1, 11-5 in just within 25 minutes to increase the lead to 2-0.

The result was confirmed beyond doubt when Trupti Murgunde stepped on to the court to send Yip Pui-Yin packing 11-9, 11-2 in 32 minutes.

But the 'dead rubber' syndrome seemed to catch up with the Indians in the first doubles as the pair of Shruti Kurien and Jwala Gutta surrendered to Koon Wai Chee and Li Wing Mui 6-15, 12-15.

Former national champion Manjusha Kanwar then ensured that the Indians signed off in style as she teamed up with Fatima Nazneen to beat Wan Ting Ling and Mau Cheng Wang 15-5, 15-10 and complete the scoreline

Jay...lookslike this syndrome here tooo!!!

Go girls!!! take out Malaysia and make it to the semifinal. Two more to go...to crab the Uber cup spot.

Kathir

Post by **jayakris** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:16 pm

Kathir: Actually the tennis people have no dead rubber syndrome. Our players routines go out to play and win dead-rubber matches in Davis Cup .. Leander has set the example over the years and they never seem to take it lightly ..

But great win by Popat and Co .. Getting closer to semifinal .. Go India!

Jay

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:28 pm

Jay..I agree, also I am referring the way it was written like;

thrashing
crashed
stepped on to the court to send..packing
surrendered to
signed off in style..to beat, etc.

Kathir

Post by **jayakris** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:44 pm

Oh sorry .. I missed that one .. You are right .. This syndrome is all over ..

Jay

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:22 pm

Results from Thomas Cup and Uber Cup mens and women's badminton team tournament on Wednesday Feb. 18, 2004:

Thomas Cup

Group A

India bt Macau 5-0

Group B

Malaysia bt Sri Lanka 5-0

Group C

Japan bt Pakistan 5-0

Group D

Thailand bt Vietnam 4-1

Uber Cup

Group A

Japan bt India 3-2

Hong Kong bt Macau 5-0

Group B

South Korea bt Taiwan 4-1

Thailand bt Vietnam 4-1

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:25 pm

Results from Thomas Cup and Uber Cup mens and women's badminton team tournament on Thursday Feb 19, 2004:

Thomas Cup

Group A

Iran bt Macau 5-0

Taiwan bt Vietnam 5-0

South Korea bt India 5-0

Malaysia bt Hong Kong 4-1

Japan bt Singapore 3-2

China bt Thailand 4-1

Uber Cup

Group A

India bt Hong Kong 4-1

Malaysia bt Macau 5-0

Here are the seedings:
Thomas Cup: 1 China; 2 Korea; 3 Malaysia; 4. Japan

Uber Cup: 1 Korea; 2 Japan; 3 Hong Kong; 4. Chinese Taipeh

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:33 pm

Fourteen nations, China, China Taipeh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam will be involved in the Thomas Cup qualifier.

Nine countries, namely Chinese Taipeh, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam will play in the Uber Cup competition.

The format for the Thomas Cup will have the 14 countries divided into four groups with the winner of each group earning automatic berth to Jakarta. The second-placed teams in each group will then playoff for the fifth place. Asia will have six places in the Final Round, which under a new format will see 12 nations participating.

In Uber Cup competition, the nine teams will be set in two groups with the top four teams joining China and Indonesia in the Final Round. The ladies tournament will also see 12 nations in the Final Round in Jakarta.

Thomas Cup (for men):
Group A
South Korea, India, Iran, Macau

Group B
Malaysia, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka

Group C
Japan, Singapore, Pakistan

Group D
China, Thailand, C. Taipei, Vietnam

Uber Cup (for women):
Group X
Japan, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Macau

Group Y
S. Korea, C. Taipei, Thailand, Vietnam

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:40 am

Bhushanji....thanks for all the details.

Kathir